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“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
― Running with Scissors
― Running with Scissors
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain: & he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks & shoals with which he is beset. Pleasure is always before us; but misfortune is at our side: while running after that, this arrests us. The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, & to suffice for our own happiness. Those, which depend on ourselves, are the only pleasures a wise man will count on: for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of. Hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures.”
― Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
― Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
“Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?”
― Corelli’s Mandolin
― Corelli’s Mandolin
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